Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SALLUSTThe renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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